Garment creaser and stretcher



J. J. SULLIVAN GARMENT CREASER AND STRETCHER Filed Aug. 3l. 1921 INVENTUR tLTJ- SULLIVAN Patented June 10, 1924.

Parar G-ARIVIENT CREASE'R AND STRETQHER.

lApplication filed August 31,1921.. Serial No. 497,404.

To all whom t may cof/worn.'

Be it known that JOHN J. SULLIVAN, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Creasers and Stretchers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in trousers creasers and stretchers and its leading object is to provide improved means for locking the terminal portions ofA a stretching and creasing frame formed of a single strand of wire, such as is disclosed in my prior patent issued April 8, 1919, :1,4: 1,300,226.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device of this kind with means adapted to permit of the creaser being folded upon itself to occupy space in a suit case or other receptacle.

Vit-h the above and other objects in view the invention consists in certain new and useful arrangements, combinations and details of parts, clearly described in the following specification and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan View, partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view of a coupling and name plate.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view taken on line 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail transverse sectional View taken on line 4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a detail side elevation showing the companion members of the 'frame folded upon each other.

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of a slip joint coupling.

Referring to the accompanying drawings illustrating the practical embodiment of my invention 5 designates one leg of the forming frame A, which consists of a lower section 5a and an upper section 5b, which may be formed integral with each other, as shown in my prior patent, but which are here shown to be coupled to each other. The inner end of the section 5a is formed with a lateral terminal bar 6 having an end stop 6a thereon, while the inner end of the section 51 is formed with a similar lateral terminal bar 7 having an end stop 7a thereon, the stops 6a and 7a being directed in opposite directions from each other. A split sleeve or tube 8 is folded on the bars 6 and 7 so as to hingedly unite the same to each other.

The leg section 5aL is formed integral with a V-shapedspring portion 9, which is integrally connected with the forming bar section 1 0. This bar section 10 is provided with a lateral terminal bar 10, having an end stop 1l. The forming bar section 5b is integrally connected to the spring arm or bar 12, the inner end of which is disposed laterally to provide an L-shaped terminal bar 12a. This bar 12 forms one side of a second V-shaped spring, the other side of which is composed of the bar 13, the inner end of which is formed with an L-shaped terminal bar 13, and the outer end of which is formed with an integral connection to the forming bar section 10". The inner end of the forming bar section 10b is provided with an integral terminal bar 14, having an end stop 14a. The bars 10 and 14 are hingedly united to each other by means of the split tube 15, which is folded on said bars and confined or held in place by the stops 11 and 14a.

The inner L-shaped terminal bars 12.a and 13a are positively coupled to each other by means of a combined name and joint plate 16, which is formed with a coiled flange 16a which receives the ends of the bars 12a and 13a, and which is located on the outer side of the plate. This plate is also formed with coiled or tubular flanges 16b and 16C, which enclose, respectively, the adjacent portions of bars 12 and 13. The face of the plate is designed to carry the name of the article and the makers name and address. The coupling or joint plate 16 provides a rigid lock for the terminal portions of the wire frame, of such character that relative pivotal movement of the bars 12 and 13 on each other is positively prevented, while all strain is removed from the angular terminals of the frame, and breakage is reduced to a minimum if not practically eliminated.

The tubes 8 and 15 are shown to be elliptical but may be of other shape, while the wire forming the frame is shown to have a beveled outer or crease forming edge a and a rounded inner edge b. The exact bevel indicated need not be followed in manufacture.

In Fig. 6 I show a modified coupling for the sections of the forming frame, wherein a tube 17 is used, one end of which is positively connected to a straight leg 18 and the other end of which is adapted to telescopically engage the pointed leg 19 of a forming frame, so that the two halves of the forming Cil fraine lnay be detached :from each other,and the device arranged in a compact condition.

Having described iny invention I claim and desire to secure b v Letters Patent :H

A garment oreaser and stretcher consist ing of a freine comprising a pair ol sections, each section of the franie having side for1ning bars and a U-shaped spring connecting said bars to each other in Vspaced relation, said freine being formed of Wire and said bars having beveled outer crease `forming edges, the spring of one of the frame seotions having confronting angular portions, and a combined naine and coupling plate having a central tubular portion 'folded around said spring to bridge said confronting portions andhaving side tubular portions folded around the sides of said spring to hold said spring in rigid relation to said traine section.

Signed by me at Springlield, Mass.

- JOHN J. SULLIVAN 

